John Tavares might want to start brushing up on his French. The New York Islanders’ star could be heading back to his native Canada, along with the rest of the team, now that a proposal to build an 18,000-seat state-of-the-art ...

Could it be foreshadowing of things to come? The New York Islanders will play the first-ever NHL game at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Oct. 2 as part of a one-game, preseason matchup against the New Jersey Devils. The ...

The big problem with public benefit deals is that the deals so rarely benefit the public. That has been especially true of taxpayer-funded sports facilities around the country, many of which operate at a loss during even the best of ...

April 19, 2011Comments Off on NHL reaches new deal to stay on NBC, Versus

The NHL is staying on NBC and Versus for the next 10 years with a deal Commissioner Gary Bettman calls the most significant in league history. In a joint announcement Tuesday, the NHL and the NBC Sports Group said the ...

It was supposed to be a three-year rebuilding plan. The New York Islanders, their fans and sponsors would endure three playoff-free seasons while putting together a team that would be a force to be reckoned with. It didn’t happen. Instead, ...

When the Winnipeg Jets hockey club threatened to move in the 1970s, fans raided their kids’ piggy banks and sent dimes, quarters and dollars to the organization, helping the financially strapped NHL team stay afloat. Two decades later, when the ...